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Show MURDER 01 LITTLE GIRL Youth Stabs His Victim and Jams Body Into Store Box.. New York, July 17. Terrifying details de-tails of the murder of Julia Connors, tho 12-year-old girl found in the Bronx last week, have been told to the grand jury. Two relatives of Nathan Swartz, his father and sister, Mrs. Frances Alexandor, tostlfied that he admitted to them he murdered the child. At the conclusion of the hoar-lng hoar-lng an indictment charging murder in the first degree was voted against the youth. Swartz has been miBslng since shortly after the murder. The elder Swartz Bald that when he heard the story of the crime he advised his son to commit suicide. "And I think he did," added tho father. Ono of the most revolting features of Mrs. Alexander's narrative was her assertion that the child was Jammed in a box after being stabbed moro than forty times by Swartz and that she remained alivo In the box throughout tbe night. Tells Story of Crime. Mrs. Alexander's repetition of the story, she said her brother had told her, was detailed and explicit in Its revelations of horror. According to Assistant District Attorney Nott, she told the jury that her brother said he had met Julia Connors on Saturday night and asked her to lake a pair of open glasses to his homr, which is just across the hall from the vacant Hat where the murder was committed. The young man said he followed tho girl and at the top of the stairs pushed push-ed her into tho vacant flat and attempted at-tempted to assault her. The child screamed, according to the story of Mrs. Alexander, and Nathan Na-than plunged his pocketknife Into her. As she continued to scream, Nathan stabbed again and again, until she finally .fell. Then he plunged the knife into tier breast near the heart, and Julia remained still. Places Body In Box. . Then Nathan went to his own home and obtained the hox In which the body was found. He placed the still living child in this box after cutting off her hair, put tho box on the dumb waiter and let it slide to the cellar, where he hid 1L Early the next morning, Sunday, he took the girl, still allvo; into the lot where she was found later. Mrs. Alexander said she threw the youth out of her house when she heard the tale. He then went to his father's place of business, where he told the same story, according to the father. Jt was stated today that the police knew where Swartz was, and as soon as the Indictment could be filed he would be arrested. Despite this, officials of-ficials tonight Issued a second circular circu-lar calling for the arrest of Swartz. |
